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This is a poem perhaps,
somewhat, in the same mood,

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called "Drawings by Children."

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And it is based on drawings
my own children did

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when they were very young, sort
of around age of five I would

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say, and which are
typical of the drawings

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of all children that age.

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"One.

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The sun may be visible or not.

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It may be behind you, the
viewer of these pictures.

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But the sky is always
blue if it is day.

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If not, the stars come
almost within your grasp.

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Crooked, they reach out to
you, on the verge of falling.

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It is never a sunrise or sunset.

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There is no bloody eye spying
on you across the horizon.

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It is clearly day or night,
it is bright or totally dark,

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it is here and never there.

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Two.

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In the beginning,
you only needed

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your head, a moon swimming in
space, and four bare branches.

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And when your body was
added, it was light and thin

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at first, not yet the dark
chapel from which, later, you

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tried to escape.

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You lived in a
non-Newtonian world,

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your arms grew up
from your shoulders,

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your feet did not
touch the ground,

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your hair was streaming,
you were still flying.

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And three.

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The house is smaller
than you remembered,

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it has windows but no door.

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A chimney sits on the
gable roof, a curl of smoke

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reassures you.

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But the house has
only two dimensions,

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like a mask without its face.

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The people who live
there stand outside as

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though time were always summer.

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There is nothing behind the wall
except a space where the wind

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whistles, but you
cannot see that."

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